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Design Diary - Character goals, motivations & names Planet art by Evlyn Moreau Hi, This is the third installment in design diary, where I design a roleplaying game inspired by...
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Edit: I've published this adventure! Get it for free here! In the coming months I plan to publish a few more adventures in the Cairn Adventure Series. I thought it might be...
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Roleplaying is a creative exercise. I forget this, sometimes. Pretty continuously, as a matter of fact. I play a lot of roleplaying games on a regular basis in my life, and I...
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I have been thinking about supers rpgs recently so I started thinking about CAPERS. Then I started thinking about CAPERS: Cyberpunk, and then about getting limbs and stuff...
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How I’ve started using Japanese smart ring binders and notebooks to organize my player sheets and spell lists. Plus a free DCC Character sheet to use with your A5 binder.More
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This is the third session of my Mythic Bastionland campaign.After an order from the Rose Seer, Knotte challenges Maldita to a duel.The recording is here and you can subscribe...
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I'm slowly working on creating my own legend of zelda themed hex crawl, and I do mean slowly this map was first created september 2022. The basic gist is that it takes place...
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This is a follow-up to that one previous post. I'm glad to see it's been received pretty positively, and that I've gotten lots of suggestions for additions. One year on, I've...
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A deep dive into an RPG's setting and how it can be improved.
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A lot of dungeon design advice focuses on “interactivity”, and to a degree this word can be a meaningless substitute for “stuff I personally like”. Yet one should strive to...
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Last summer, I invited everyone to participate in a Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam. It was a lot of fun! And nineteen people created Lego-themed settings, adventures, and...
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tl;dr What if Tsutomu Nihei did a take on something between Iron Man and Doctor Strange? So of course I use other artist and mangaka references in this post instead of Tsutomu...
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With 65 minutes on the clock, I'm intending to keep up with my "minimum one blog a month" goal - And this time (as ever) getting a little personal ~ Lately I've been a bit...
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rovee-eats-art:Made this for the crocodile, thought they deserved some fanart cause I love them so much and I couldn’t stop thinking about them.^———^( Ó w Ò) Hi @zedecksiew (...
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Jaw-Break Shore (0706)A Hex for Prismatic Wasteland's Merry Hexmas Blog Bandwagon Warning: This Post is a WIP, and will be updated as surrounding Hexes are filled in by other...
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You wish your ride was this cool - (Source) This post is part of a series of Blogs where I work on my home-ruleset, 'The Sanic Hack.' You may or may not gain better...
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Some wires got crossed, or maybe you just drew poorly. Regardless, your powers are always on, despite how convenient it would be to turn them off. Being a constant danger to...
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"My life... my job... my curse... is to vanquish evil."-Van Helsing, 2004As the story goes, clerics were introduced to the game when the players wanted a character class that...
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A reading informed review of Cairn second edition.
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No too long ago I made a postmortem on the process of creating half of a megadungeon over the course of a month. Well I have decided to post a super rough draft of the first...
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NULL_SPACE # Liminal Void is has been consigned to the void. Well, the name has, anyway. Going forward, it will be called NULL_SPACE! When I spoke about it last, I said both of...
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I recently had the privilege to take part in an in-person playtest session of The Seven-Part Pact, the upcoming game by Jay Dragon.The Seven-Part Pact is a game for seven...
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LIFE CYCLEA seed from a divine source, the tree it grows into, and the demon that follows.+++THIRTY YEARS AGO, AS THE SUN SETPrau Sa Pritiya danced. Her chest shivered, her...
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This isn't for the Beholder bandwagon. I don't know what that is, or what a Beholder is. I've never heard of Hasbro™ or Wizards of the Coast™ or Dungeons and Dragons™ or of the...
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I'll repeat a few things here from the Bazaar of the Memorable, just for ease of reference. That post dealt with caravan management; money, trade goods, and camels....
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Credit: Alan LeeThis is a post about a very subtle facet of spotlight management. I consider it to be one of the most important techniques a GM needs to master, and is very...
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A common way of playing long-term dungeon adventures takes the same format of the West Marches campaign: go down an entrance at the start of the session, do as much...
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Introduction Opening and eating fortune cookies provide a chance for ominous, vague, or hysterical moments in a campaign setting. Whether it's adding the phrase "in bed" after...
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